By Brian Roman Philosophy Of Star Trek By Brian Roman
Religion Humanism. In Star Trek the human race is the primary source of moral authority. Individual humans and other races are authorized to make moral judgments to a lesser extent compared to today's times. The moral problems of individual humans are the result of poor up bringing, unfortunate circumstances, or lack of knowledge. A person's moral perfection increases with education, time and technology. Alien races are judged by how closely they meet human moral standards. Major moral principles:
Karl Marx: a believer in technological determinism
technological determinism: the philosophy that technology will eventually solve every problem facing human society. This includes behavior that is undesirable, such as crime and hate. In Star Trek technology can solve all the problems of mankind, including the problems. That's come from war. Technology will eventually solve all problems.
Socialism All people in the show work according to their abilities and receive resources according to what they need. The achievement of an individual is recognized socially but not rewarded with money. Individual freedom isn't important. The economy Economy should be centrally planned by the government, since they know best who needs what. The Social problems that exist in Star Trek are caused by scarcity or some other inability to receive material goods. Federation citizens have access to all the material things they need thanks to the Federation government, so they are free to be truly happy and to maximize their human potential.
Data is an android in the series “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. He is a mechanical representation of a human with a highly advanced cybernetic brain. You can turn him off and on, you can even disassemble him and put him back together, and he will not die. He was not programmed to have emotions, he cannot feel pain. Data also has trouble understanding human relationships.
However he does one thing that humans do, and computers can't; he learns.
Through his interactions with humans, he begins to make friendships, he comes to understand human empathy and morality, he starts making decisions based on ethics and not cold logic, he even has a pet cat who, to any observer, it would appear he loves. He begins to have desires; he desires to be more human, he desires more experiences. In one episode, he even desires a family, and builds himself a daughter.
Is Data a living being? Is he a person? Or is he a machine?
Determinism On the whole, biology dictates behavior. Humans are the race most capable of free thought and action, and have the most cultural diversity. Other races are stereotypical. All members of a given alien race share the same culture.
Human beings today are in many ways being assimilated by the culture and values of their environment. people of today seem to have a collective consciousness. whatever ever happened to actualizing yourself as a human being as opposed to self-image actualization?? the video below shows great examples of this.
Philosophy Of Star Trek
By Brian RomanPhilosophy Of Star Trek
By Brian Roman
Religion
Humanism. In Star Trek the human race is the primary source of moral authority. Individual humans and other races are authorized to make moral judgments to a lesser extent compared to today's times. The moral problems of individual humans are the result of poor up bringing, unfortunate circumstances, or lack of knowledge. A person's moral perfection increases with education, time and technology. Alien races are judged by how closely they meet human moral standards. Major moral principles:
Karl Marx: a believer in technological determinism
technological determinism: the philosophy that technology will eventually solve every problem facing human society. This includes behavior that is undesirable, such as crime and hate.
In Star Trek technology can solve all the problems of mankind, including the problems. That's come from war. Technology will eventually solve all problems.
Socialism
All people in the show work according to their abilities and receive resources according to what they need. The achievement of an individual is recognized socially but not rewarded with money. Individual freedom isn't important. The economy Economy should be centrally planned by the government, since they know best who needs what. The Social problems that exist in Star Trek are caused by scarcity or some other inability to receive material goods. Federation citizens have access to all the material things they need thanks to the Federation government, so they are free to be truly happy and to maximize their human potential.
Data is an android in the series “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. He is a mechanical representation of a human with a highly advanced cybernetic brain. You can turn him off and on, you can even disassemble him and put him back together, and he will not die. He was not programmed to have emotions, he cannot feel pain. Data also has trouble understanding human relationships.
However he does one thing that humans do, and computers can't; he learns.
Through his interactions with humans, he begins to make friendships, he comes to understand human empathy and morality, he starts making decisions based on ethics and not cold logic, he even has a pet cat who, to any observer, it would appear he loves. He begins to have desires; he desires to be more human, he desires more experiences. In one episode, he even desires a family, and builds himself a daughter.
Is Data a living being? Is he a person? Or is he a machine?
Determinism
On the whole, biology dictates behavior. Humans are the race most capable of free thought and action, and have the most cultural diversity. Other races are stereotypical. All members of a given alien race share the same culture.
Human beings today are in many ways being assimilated by the culture and values of their environment. people of today seem to have a collective consciousness. whatever ever happened to actualizing yourself as a human being as opposed to self-image actualization?? the video below shows great examples of this.